AtticAnne's Attempts at Art

I have been using Studio 4 for 10-1/2 months and have very little to show for it. I do save as scene, so I started going back through and trying to straighten all the messes I made. Any help will be deeply appreciated. I'm not saying Studio is hard, but...

I have been using Studio 4 for 10-1/2 months and have very little to show for it. I do save as scene, so I started going back through and trying to straighten all the messes I made. Any help will be deeply appreciated. I'm not saying Studio is hard, but...

I can see you are finding things a little tricky but, you at least have some good basics going for you.
Your little football guy works as does your camping scene but, I am not sure what is going on with the horsey? :lol:

I would suggest that you concentrate on a single figure scene to start off with.
Then use that figure as a test bed to familiarise yourself with lighting, posing and clothing etc.
Basically what I am saying is keep your scenes simple until you feel confident enough to go onto multi-character renders.

I am still keeping my scenes simple after 3 years of being a Daz user :lol:

If there are areas you you require specific help with just holler.....!

The Mil horse is supposed to be wearing the blanket from Opti-tex. It was supposed to be a circus/carnival horse with a rider. If I ever got the blanket positioned, then I was going to glitz it up for the circus.

I'm rotating this one to the bottom of my to-do list. Things are slowly beginning to click and maybe by the time it comes up again I will have learned how to put the blanket on the horse.

The ball player is for my grandson Sasha. He got to play soccer last fall and loves it.

I don't think there is anything in the cooler, but it looks like I dropped a fork on the ground.

That poor horse. I just cannot get the blasted blanket positioned. If I ever do, then I'll probably find out I can't position the rider or her hat. I think at one point I had the horse wearing the hat on its neck.

I have been using Studio 4 for 10-1/2 months and have very little to show for it. I do save as scene, so I started going back through and trying to straighten all the messes I made. Any help will be deeply appreciated. I'm not saying Studio is hard, but...

I can see you are finding things a little tricky but, you at least have some good basics going for you.
Your little football guy works as does your camping scene but, I am not sure what is going on with the horsey? :lol:

I would suggest that you concentrate on a single figure scene to start off with.
Then use that figure as a test bed to familiarise yourself with lighting, posing and clothing etc.
Basically what I am saying is keep your scenes simple until you feel confident enough to go onto multi-character renders.

I am still keeping my scenes simple after 3 years of being a Daz user :lol:

If there are areas you you require specific help with just holler.....!

Thanks for taking a look and critiquing. My family is becoming used to my gales of laughter and just say, well, she's playing with DAZ again. You just think the camping scene works because I didn't show all of it. Somewhere there are baked potatoes with pats of butter floating off into outer space. I sure did jump into this with lofty ambitions.

You are right about keeping it simple. The first thing I ever tried involved 2 guys sitting in front of a bear den. My daughter wouldn't even let me keep it on my computer--didn't want Sasha to see it and I had managed to get the guys into very compromising poses. So all tries at that got deleted. But I laughed until I cried.

Thank you, Jade. It was a spur-of-the-moment to see if the elven dress would easily fit Amy and it did with no problems. I love DAZ 4. I have 3 books being delivered today--2 on Bryce and the Avatars book.

I have been using Studio 4 for 10-1/2 months and have very little to show for it. I do save as scene, so I started going back through and trying to straighten all the messes I made. Any help will be deeply appreciated. I'm not saying Studio is hard, but...

I can see you are finding things a little tricky but, you at least have some good basics going for you.
Your little football guy works as does your camping scene but, I am not sure what is going on with the horsey? :lol:

I would suggest that you concentrate on a single figure scene to start off with.
Then use that figure as a test bed to familiarise yourself with lighting, posing and clothing etc.
Basically what I am saying is keep your scenes simple until you feel confident enough to go onto multi-character renders.

I am still keeping my scenes simple after 3 years of being a Daz user :lol:

If there are areas you you require specific help with just holler.....!

Thanks for taking a look and critiquing. My family is becoming used to my gales of laughter and just say, well, she's playing with DAZ again. You just think the camping scene works because I didn't show all of it. Somewhere there are baked potatoes with pats of butter floating off into outer space. I sure did jump into this with lofty ambitions.

You are right about keeping it simple. The first thing I ever tried involved 2 guys sitting in front of a bear den. My daughter wouldn't even let me keep it on my computer--didn't want Sasha to see it and I had managed to get the guys into very compromising poses. So all tries at that got deleted. But I laughed until I cried.

ROFL..................and, that is exactly what it is all about...........having fun as you go.
My family used to laugh themselves silly at my stuff..........now, I charge them for viewings :lol:

Heeerreeee's Amy, dressed in an elven outfit. This was easier that most.

Now this image looks really super, and is the type of POV I would create myself.
My only problem with it is ...................... I am seeing multi-pixelation. Could you upload a Jpeg version for me to see, please? :coolsmile:

My family used to laugh themselves silly at my stuff..........now, I charge them for viewings :lol:

What a great idea. LOL Funny

As others have said keep it simple and slowly build up to bigger scenes.

But as I said in the 101 class thread, play with it, test things out on primatives when you can. Reading about how these progarms make things happen is a good start in understanding the programs themselves.

I worked on this all day for the Newcomers Contest, went to post it, and discovered it closed yesterday, not today. It will be some time before I look at her again because after a month of her, I'm plain sick and tired . I don't think her boots will ever fit. This posing exercise has made me resolve to leave my people barefoot if the shoe don't fit the first time. I ain't agonna force it any more.

Thanks to all you great people who helped me. Some of it stuck, some of it didn't. That's okay, some days I don't even know what my name is.

I worked on this all day for the Newcomers Contest, went to post it, and discovered it closed yesterday, not today. It will be some time before I look at her again because after a month of her, I'm plain sick and tired . I don't think her boots will ever fit. This posing exercise has made me resolve to leave my people barefoot if the shoe don't fit the first time. I ain't agonna force it any more.

Thanks to all you great people who helped me. Some of it stuck, some of it didn't. That's okay, some days I don't even know what my name is.

Cool stuff Anne! Was this a daz render? and did you render her with the background or layer her in during post work? I ask cos recently I learned you could render in daz as a PNG file, already smoothly cut out. I totally use it all the time now :)

Love her outfit Too!! I found myself looking for Jack Sparrow with protruding eyes and a not so hidden expression of eyeing her off! HAHA!

I worked on this all day for the Newcomers Contest, went to post it, and discovered it closed yesterday, not today. It will be some time before I look at her again because after a month of her, I'm plain sick and tired . I don't think her boots will ever fit. This posing exercise has made me resolve to leave my people barefoot if the shoe don't fit the first time. I ain't agonna force it any more.

Thanks to all you great people who helped me. Some of it stuck, some of it didn't. That's okay, some days I don't even know what my name is.

Cool stuff Anne! Was this a daz render? and did you render her with the background or layer her in during post work? I ask cos recently I learned you could render in daz as a PNG file, already smoothly cut out. I totally use it all the time now :)

Love her outfit Too!! I found myself looking for Jack Sparrow with protruding eyes and a not so hidden expression of eyeing her off! HAHA!

All DAZ Studio renders...I don't know how to do any others yet. I did her first and saved as a scene. Then added to a background and rendered. I like PNGs. The outfit is a texture outfit for Lassie of the Seas.